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The Martyrs of Japan (Japanese: 日本の殉教者, Hepburn: Nihon no junkyōsha) were Christian missionaries and followers who were persecuted and executed, mostly during the Tokugawa shogunate period in the 17th century. The Japanese saw the rituals of the Christians causing people to pray, close their eyes with the sign of the cross and lock ...
The 26 Martyrs Museum in Nagasaki City, Japan; Catholic Bishops Conference of Japan: Timeline of the Catholic Church in Japan; Daughters of St. Paul Convent, Tokyo, Japan: Prohibition of Christian religion by Hideyoshi and the 26 martyrs Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Japanese Martyrs". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Martyrdom of Paul Miki and Companions in Nagasaki St. Francisco Blanco. In the aftermath of the San Felipe incident of 1596, [3] 26 Catholics – four Spaniards, one Mexican, one Portuguese from India (all of whom were Franciscan missionaries), three Japanese Jesuits, and 17 Japanese members of the Third Order of St. Francis, including three young boys who served as altar boys for the ...
Paul Miki, SJ (Japanese: パウロ三木; (‘Paulo Miki’) c. 1562 – 5 February 1597) was a Japanese Catholic evangelist and Jesuit, known for his martyrdom during a 16th-century anti-Catholic uprising. Canonized by Pope Pius IX in 1862, Miki is recognized as one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan.
Antonio Gonzalez (c.1593-1637), Spanish friar, missionary to the Philippines and Japan, one of the 16 Martyrs of Japan; Luke Alonso Gorda (1594-1633), Spanish priest, missionary to the Philippines and Japan, one of the 16 Martyrs of Japan; Gundisalvus of Amarante (1187-1259), Portuguese priest and hermit
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Edmund Campion (1540–1581), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Peter Canisius (1521–1597), significant figure in the Counter-Reformation, Doctor of the Church. Juan de Castillo (1596–1628), martyred in Paraguay. Noël Chabanel (1613–1649), one of the Canadian Martyrs. Peter Claver (1580–1654), Spanish missionary in South ...
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